CEComp-Digital Humanities
Coordinator: Santi Pérez Isasi
During the last decades, Digital Humanities have become an established scientific field, with potential for even further development in the areas of literary and cultural studies. The exponential growth in events, publications, and national and international networks and associations, shows the consolidation of this field; at the same time, this expansion has been accompanied by internal and external critical reflections which question both its scientific and methodological foundations, as well as its ideological and geopolitical underpinnings.
In this context, Digital Humanities were identified as one of the key areas in the Strategic Project of the Center for Comparative Studies for the period of 2020-2023. In fact, CEComp has already worked extensively, since its very creation, on the theoretical, critical and methodological knowledges required by several trends of Digital Humanities: digital edition, digital cartography, media studies and their relation with literary studies, among many others. In addition, CEComp is in a priviledged position to offer a critical and in-depth reflection, from the standpoint of its core areas of interest, on the expansion of techonological tools for the Humanities.
In this sense, this iniative intends to deepen the work carried out by CEComp in the field of Digital Humanities, by organizing events and training courses (both directed to its members and to the general public), by disseminating projects, results and resources in this area, and by creating digital tools that facilitate collaboration among its members, projects and groups.
Objectives
- To give visibility to the work already carried out by CEComp in the field of Digital Humanities
- To promote a better understanding of the possibilities and resources offered by Digital Humanities among CEComp members and the academic community in general
- To offer specific training on key Digital Humanities areas (digital edition, bibliographic databases, digital cartography, etc.)
- To promote and encourage new Digital Humanities projects within CEComp, and to explore the inclusion of DH elements and tools in already existing ones.
Team
Santiago Pérez Isasi (coordinator)
Amândio Reis
Gerd Hammer
Jonas Prinzleve
Sandra Camacho
Activities
- 1st CEComp-HD Seminar: “An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Possibilities and Challenges”, by Jan Horstmann. FLUL, 21 April 2021.
- Jornadas Internacionais “Para uma história digital das literaturas ibéricas”, FLUL, 18-19 November 2021.
- 2nd CEComp-HD Seminar: “O Programming Historian em português e o ensino das Humanidades Digitais”, by Daniel Alves and Joana Paulino, 23 March 2022.
- 1st CEComp HD Workshop, “Hands-on Introduction to the annotation, analysis and visualization of texts”, by Jan Horstmann. FLUL, 18 April 2022.
Planned Activities
- 3rd CEComp HD Seminar: “Digital Methods in the Spatial Humanities”. FLUL, 16 May 2022.
